Only six months after purchasing a major rail hub in the Bakken oil and gas play for $425 million, Inergy LP, a Missouri-based oil and gas transport and storage firm, has merged with Crestwood Midstream Partners LP, forming a $7 billion company. READ MORESHARE

Construction has started on North Gate Apartment Homes, a 300-unit upscale community in Williston, North Dakota. Along with several amenities, the facility will offer storage lockers for items with oil-residue. READ MORESHARE

Houston-based crude oil gatherer and marketing firm, Great Northern Midstream LLC, has partnered with an oil production and quantity tracking technology provider for all of the company's North Dakota operations. READ MORESHARE

Self-storage service provider, U-Haul Company of Fargo, is helping to ease the need for temporary storage in western North Dakota. The company recently opened two, single-story buildings in Minot, N.D. READ MORESHARE

A groundbreaking ceremony scheduled this week for the Thunder Butte Petroleum Services Inc. diesel refinery near New Town, N.D., represents the second diesel refinery development project started in N.D., in the past three months. READ MORESHARE